The Chautauqua Institution is a historic, renowned interfaith community located in southwestern New York state just across the Pennsylvania border. Founded in the late 1800s, it is a lovely place on Chautauqua Lake. Every summer the institution hosts ecumenical gatherings…
Growing up in Albania, a country still suffering from the grave wounds inflicted by communism, it was easy to distinguish right-wing principles: love for God, family, community, country, respect for culture, tradition, and history, limited government, free markets, anti-communism, tolerance…
Well, this is it. The final Five Quick Things of 2021. Have you had enough yet? Are you among our collective national Roberto Durans bellowing “No Mas” at a truly awful year? Of course you are. What are you, a…
So. Over there on the New York Times Op-Ed page this fine new week is this headline: We Are Republicans With a Plea: Elect Democrats in 2022 The article, co-authored by Miles Taylor and Christine Todd Whitman, he the disaffected…
Washington — Or should I dateline this column “Mid-Atlantic,” or just “On the Ground at Heathrow”? Whatever, I feel this column is being written at 35,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean, and I am anticipating great fun when I arrive…
President Joe Biden will be meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin in a couple weeks. It is time for a new approach to Russia. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher played a key role in ending the Cold War. Her most important…
We’ve all been in lockdown for months, and for a very good reason: Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, needs to get even richer. No, that’s not the truth. Not the whole truth, anyway. The folks at Netflix,…
Boris Johnson can boast that in at least one political maneuver, he has trumped Benjamin Disraeli. As the United Kingdom begins three months of intense negotiations with the European Union, discussions will be in English. That’s quite a concession from predominantly…
Washington I am rounding the last turn of Charles Moore’s magisterial biography of Margaret Thatcher. It is no sprint. It is not even a distance race. It is a marathon of a literary work, three volumes, thick volumes. Yet, as…
